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These stupid 'traits' are the reason some cousins actually refused to take a DNA test, that would have been very valuable to my tree. They expressed fear at the 'data' being collected, and not wanting to know what they might die of.

I asked some cousins, and their best guess is that Peter and Jane were somehow related. Peter's grandparents were Nicholas Kearney and Bridget Gorman, married in 1780. Haven't found grandparents for Jane Toole. There were Tooles living at the foot of Carrickgollogan, near the Kearneys, but Jane appears to have come from Bray Town, and there is a James Toole, probably her father, living in a lane off the Main Street.

Another suggestion, grasping at straws: Peter's father, also Peter Kearney (1787-1870) received the lands of some other families who were evicted in 1862 by the notorious evicting landlord Charles Compton Domville. One of those evicted was a Molly Toole, who I am sure was Mary Neill, married to Morgan Toole, probably deceased by the time of the evictions. I wonder was there animosity at Peter Kearney for having received the Toole land? I can't find a likely connection. Morgan Toole had a brother James Toole born in 1806, a little too young to be the father of Jane Toole in 1823, whose sister was born in 1819.

Quote from: KD146 on Saturday 09 November 24 01:28 GMT (UK)

Thank you all so much for all this. It seems that Peter Kearney required very special dispensation since the Vicar Capitular got involved!

You have assumed from the start that the issue was on Peter's side. Why?
Couldn't it equally have been on Jane's side?

It could, of course. I have searched for other earlier marriages, but found none. I will keep looking. But thank you so much for your very useful input!

There was another Catholic chapel at Crinken also in this older parish - now long gone, right beside the village of Shankill where this  Kearney/Carney family lived.

The Catholic chapel at Crinken dated from 1810 to 1837, before being replaced by St.Peter's in Little Bray. In this case, it looks like Cabinteely was probably the chapel used.

*EDIT* I made a mistake, 1822 was Peter's baptism, his father was baptised in 1787, so Crinken could also have been the chapel.

I am interested in the second marriage record on the attached page from the Catholic Parish Registers at the NLI for Little Bray, no.195, Peter Kearney and Jane Toole.

There is a Dispensation note on columns 7 and 8 which is practically illegible. I wonder if anyone more familiar with these dispensations might make a good guess at what it says? Peter and Jane married late in life, and it seems that Peter emigrated to the US in 1850, but returned to Ireland, where he inherited his father's farm. His emigration led to him marrying late, and I wondered if the dispensation might offer any more information.  Many thanks.

https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633819#page/24/mode/1up